About the Authors

Cíntia Yuki Fukuoka

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Oral Biology, Department of Biomaterials and Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Hugo Passos Vicari

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Oral Biology, Department of Biomaterials and Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Carla Renata Sipert

Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Endodontics, Department of Restorative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Ujjal Kumar Bhawal

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Nihon University School of Dentistry at Matsudo, Matsudo, Chiba, Japan

Yoshimitsu Abiko

Roles Conceptualization, Software

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Nihon University School of Dentistry at Matsudo, Matsudo, Chiba, Japan

Victor Elias Arana-Chavez

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Oral Biology, Department of Biomaterials and Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Alyne Simões

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lysimoes@usp.br

Affiliation Laboratory of Oral Biology, Department of Biomaterials and Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.